Feb 12 1999
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (3MB PDF)
NASA officials announced that the Galileo spacecraft was operating normally again after entering safe mode on 31 January. Galileo's computer had become confused while flying past Jupiter's moon Europa. David A. Senske, a member of the Galileo imaging team at NASA's JPL, explained that the unusual angle Galileo required for studying Europa had caused the computer to malfunction.
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